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Yesterday members a compromise to avoid getting rid of Columbus Day.
The resolution, introduced in May by Ward 7 Councilman Basheer Jones, originally would have replaced Columbus Day (held every year on the second Monday of October) with Indigenous Peoples’ Day. Its something many localities (including Oberlin) and some states have already done, believing Christopher Columbus is not a figure who should be celebrated.
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